The Erasmus + Strategic Partnership "Garden without borders. A school to develop key skills in Europe "has produced this collective pedagogical file of 35 work tracks, from the conception, sharing and sharing of educational practices focused on the use of the fragile garden.
It is the result of a collaboration between professors of
Paysage et patrimoine Association, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France,
Acquamarina Association, Trieste, Italy,
Botanical Garden of the University of Granada, Spain,
Botanical Garden of the University of Padova, Italy,
Agrupamento de Escolas João de Deus, Faro, Portugal.
It is a tool to help teachers manage diverse groups of students with learning difficulties and to use new ways to optimize and improve their pedagogy.
Each of the online teaching forms involves these key competences which are transversal to the whole book. These skills are the foundation for personal fulfillment, social inclusion, active citizenship and future employment : a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes appropriate to each context.
This collective tools presents a series of innovative approaches that contribute to the development of key competences of learners. These approaches encourage transversal approaches built around the same theme : the garden.
Thanks to the Erasmus + partnership, a "Borderless Garden" has just been created in Europe and throughout the world, through the languages of arts and sciences, mathematics and literature, poetry and landscape, as countless bridges thrown between our countries.
Aline Rutily, Project Manager and Publishing Coordinator
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21 octobre 2018
PROJECT
The activity is carried out in a garden with the help of images reproducing the same garden over various historical periods. It is helpful to understand how the appearance of a garden changes year by year. The ideal situation is to develop the activity in a historical garden of more than a century because there the changes are more visible. A moment of debate on the reasons why the changes have occurred may be foreseen.
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7 novembre 2018
PROJECT
With the help of a book and an activity developed on the ground of the Carmen de los Martires in Granada, Spain, make the learners acquainted with the most common trees in the garden. This activity can be carried out in a park, a garden, the green space of a villa or any other natural area.
A guide to the woody plants of the Carmen de los Mártires (Granada) was developed as part of our Garden Without Borders project, thanks to the generous collaboration of Professor Nimis met in the botanical garden of Trieste, during the 3rd transnational meeting.
This tool is a dichotomous key that is now available on the Internet
This tool was used in the learning and training mobility courses that took place in Granada from 16 to 20 October 2018. It enabled us to graphically identify nearly 200 species of trees and trees. shrubs present in the garden of Carmen de los Mártires.
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20 mai 2019
PROJECT
To build a herbarium starting from texts and images of plants taken from pictures, photos, drawings, paintings, collages…
To learn how to upload it on the web.
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15 septembre 2018
PROJECT
To realize a mural starting from personal pictures taken in a garden to create,
by means of a collage, a large composition on one of the walls in the school.
This collective activity has been conceived as a salute to the garden of the school before its loss due to renovating works. Though the artistic aspect is prevalent, this group work falls within a cross-curricular approach favourable to the inclusion of students with learning difficulties and to the learning of key and transversal competences.
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15 septembre 2018
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To realise drawings of insects directly from nature thanks to a partner in possession of the insectarium Lorca of the Garcia Lorca Park in Granada. The presence of its director Dom Antonio de la Blanca in our school has enabled our students to closely observe the different species of insects, touch them and be inspired with the creation of a visual art ’bestiary’. Though the artistic aspect plays a main role, the whole activity displays cross-curricular elements to favour the learning of transversal and key competences.
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15 septembre 2018
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To implement drawings of plants in their natural habitat by choosing the garden as a personal laboratory, source of inspiration and experimentation. The students have taken possession of different spaces of the garden where they have chosen the plants to be closely observed, touched, breathe, in order to employ them as subjects of a visual art herbarium. The artistic aspect prevails here, however the whole activity displays cross-curricular elements to favour the learning of transversal and key competences.
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15 février 2019
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In this team project, the students are involved in the creation of some convivial green spaces n the school using recycled furniture and objects employed as ’gardeners’ of outside and inside plants.
Besides favouring the well being and the quality of the school environment, this team work falls within a cross-curricular approach favourable to the inclusion of students with learning difficulties and to the learning of key and transversal competences
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20 mars 2019
PROJECT
The students are involved in this collective project to recreate a garden disappeared after some renovation works occurred in the school area.
This project is an answer to the speech held by Greta Thunberg during the 24th conference at the United nations, symbol of the students’ manifestations against global warming.
Besides improving well being and the quality of the working environment, this team work falls within a cross-curricular approach favourable to the inclusion of students with learning difficulties and to the learning of key and transversal competences
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15 novembre 2018
PROJECT
To realize a collective mural fresco on the theme of the autumn colours in the garden making a collage of mixed materials including leaves, dried plant elements. Though the artistic part is prevalent, this team work falls within a cross-curricular approach favourable to the inclusion of students with learning difficulties and to the learning of key and transversal competences.
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14 mai 2019
PROJECT
The project exploits MPD (Municipal Planning Directory) of the town of Faro, Portugal, which aims at an increasing participation of the population in the decisions concerning the planning of the territory. The pedagogical activities inherent in this project favour the social inclusion of the students with the involvement of the most disadvantaged and motivate them through the analysis of the spaces where they live by promoting proposals for their imrpovement